#knights

She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint. ↗

— Rupert S. Holland

#lancelot #love #medieval #love

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn. ↗

— Tanya Huff

#knights #sneaking #stealth #men

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#because #being #british #british columbia #ceremonies

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#generals #i #knights #like #middle

Knights die in battle,” Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. “As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#brienne #childbed #knights #ladies #beauty

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. ↗

— E. B. White

#debates #disarmament #imperative #knights #make

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#death #hath #knights #lord #love

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#accept #found #government #i #knighthood

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#company #esteem #find #grandest #happened

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you, because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fairytale-love #rescuing-you #saving-you #standing-up-for-who-you-love #unrequited-love